2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in the Plains States Region
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Ranked Colleges
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 8,862 people earned their degree in nursing practice, making the major the 105th most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 1,314 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in nursing practice. That schools that top this list have a program in nursing practice in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Mary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in the Plains States Region list. This small school is located in Bismarck, North Dakota, and it awarded 13 masters’s nursing practice degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Nursing Practice at University of Mary
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Creighton University landed the #2 spot on the list. Creighton University is located in Omaha, Nebraska and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 5 masters’s nursing practice degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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